The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-20
IRON MONSTERSRUN WILD
BOTH FINALLY PLUNGE OVER AN
EMBANKMENT.

The Crowded Yards of the Pennsyl-
vania Road at Philadelphia the Start
ing Point of the Frightful Stampede
One Engineer Horribly Mangled
and Another Expected to Die.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 19.-Two big pas
senger engines ran away within the yard of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company last
night, and the two engineers received proba-
bly, fatal injuries The locomotives were
totally destroyed. Locomotive No. 1893,
Morris Thomson, engineer, was standing be-
side the signal tower, on the tracks above
Seventeenth street, awaiting a signal to
back into the Broad street station, where be
couples to the passenger train for Harris
burg and the West. AS the engineer sat in
the cab, with his back to the station, he sud
denly heard the heavy roll of wheels on the
tracks behind him. As quick as a flash he
turned, but it was too late. The crash had
come. A heavy shifting engine, No. 1S9,
Joseph Murray engineer, while running out
of the station, had taken the wrong track.
The shifter collided with No. 1893, with ter
rible effect
A HORRIBLE DEATH.
Engineer Thomson was caught in the
crash, and after being mangled about the
head, was thrown out of the cab, and lay
insensible alongside the track A passing
train struck him, and almost cut his right
arm off at the shoulder. When he was
picked up, his bowels were protruding, and
his head was frightfully battered. Fireman
Blakemore was also thrown off the engine,
but escaped with only slight bruises When
the shifter crashed into No. 1913 the latter's
throttle was thrown wide open, and the en-
gine started out on the road at the rate of a
mile a minute. Having no one on board to
control it, the wild engine flew westward
through the yards toward West Philadel-
phia.
ANOTHER MONSTER STARTS OFF.
When No. 393 reached the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore railroad cross
ing, mile distant, near Thirtieth street, on
the elevated track, it collided with engine
No. 100, which runs to West Chester. The
engineer, Joseph Kelley, was alone, waiting
to back down to Broad street for his train
The force of the collision threw Kelley out
on the ground and then engine No. |, 100
bounded up the track, its throttle having
been blown open also, with engine No. 1893
crowding behind it, Fortunately the two
engines ran through a switch, which threw
them on a'short side track. This track was
only 100 yards in length and ended upon an
embanlkment about thirty feet in height
No. 1, 100 went bounding down the embank-
ment and buried itself in the dirt.
THE SECOND LEAPS OVER.
The second engine came along at the same
wild speed, and it went, too, crashing down
the bank, tumbling over the other iron
monster. The two engines are badly
wrecked, and, had they not taken the side
track, would have run wildly ahead on the
main track and caused, perhaps, terrible
catastrophe, as nothing could have stopped
them until they collded with another train
or their steam ran out. When Engineer
Kelly was found he had deep cash in the
right side of his head and another over his
right eye and big bruise over his right
temple. He could not stand, and was suf-
fering from the shock Both men were re-
moved to hospital. where physicians pro
nounced their condition dangerous